NOWADAYS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nowadays mean? 

• NOWADAYS (noun)
  The noun NOWADAYS has 1 sense:

1. the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech

  Familiarity information: NOWADAYS used as a noun is very rare.

• NOWADAYS (adverb)
  The adverb NOWADAYS has 1 sense:

1. in these times

  Familiarity information: NOWADAYS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOWADAYS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

nowadays; present

Context example:

he lives in the present with no thought of tomorrow

Hypernyms ("nowadays" is a kind of...):

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nowadays"):

now (the momentary present)

here and now; moment; present moment (at this time)

date (the present)

nonce; time being (the present occasion)

today (the present time or age)

tonight (the present or immediately coming night)

• NOWADAYS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In these times

Synonyms:

now; nowadays; today

Context example:

today almost every home has television

 Context examples 

He is the best landlord, and the best master, said she, that ever lived; not like the wild young men nowadays, who think of nothing but themselves.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It will do me good, and my old bones won't suffer, for traveling nowadays is almost as easy as sitting in a chair.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Although they originate from America, nowadays many of them can be found in a wide range of countries and environments.

(Scientists examine the ethnobotanical uses of stramonium, University of Granada)

“It might be all a lie,” he acknowledged; “but so many fine ladies were going to the devil nowadays that way, that there was no answering for anybody.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Theresa Wright is her name, and the kind of maid you don’t pick up nowadays.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the case of GSM, connecting people is invaluable nowadays in our society.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

The blue whale, which is the largest species at 30 meters long, had a large presence on the Brazilian coast, but nowadays it is rarely sighted.

(Brazil to support South Atlantic whale sanctuary bid, Agência BRASIL)

You have both of you something, to be sure, but it is not a trifle that will support a family nowadays; and after all that romancers may say, there is no doing without money.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But dear Maria has such a strict sense of propriety, so much of that true delicacy which one seldom meets with nowadays, Mrs. Rushworth—that wish of avoiding particularity!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)